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Plot Words
Poetry Words
Characterization Words
Expository Texts
Strategies
100
The problem in a story
What is conflict
100
Sections of Poetry
What is a stanza
100
The Hero of the story
What is protagonist
100
What the story is "mostly" about
What is main idea
100
make notes in the text and underline important information
What is annotate
200
Events that take place in a story after the climax and before the resolution
What is falling action
200
How the author paints a picture using the five senses
What is imagery
200
Works against the Hero in a story
What is antagonist
200
Supports what the story is "mostly" about; evidence
What is supporting details
200
prove one/disprove three
What is P1D3
300
The introduction of characters and setting in a story
What is the exposition
300
Comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as"
What is metaphor
300
Perspective from which the story is told
what is point of view
300
A piece of a larger work
What is excerpt
300
imagine the outcome/what might happen
What is prediction
400
How the story ends
What is the resolution
400
Feelings conveyed by the author
What is tone
400
descriptions the author gives about characters
What is "characteristics"
400
A brief re-telling of the main points of a text
What is summarization
400
prove it!
What is textual evidence
500
The turning point and/or when the protagonist knows the outcome of the story
What is climax
500
When the author expresses personal thoughts or feelings through poetry
What is lyric poetry
500
directions given to characters in a play
What is staging
500
making an "educated guess" based on facts and your knowledge
What is inference
500
vocabulary questions rely on context clues and a...
What is "dictionary"